Christopha was 'ere.
What sort of weird pervert would include "Country" or "Western" in a poll about music?:confused:
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Christopha was 'ere.
What sort of weird pervert would include "Country" or "Western" in a poll about music?:confused:
Wierdest words to a song? Ooh eee ooh ah ah, ting tang wallah wallah bing bang....etc from "my friend the witchdoctor", ca 1950.
Would you believe I have that on a SQUARE cardboard record and it still plays.Quote:
Originally posted by AlexS
Wierdest words to a song? Ooh eee ooh ah ah, ting tang wallah wallah bing bang....etc from "my friend the witchdoctor", ca 1950.
Bob:confused:
I found it hard to clasify my tastes in one category. I can say ..
Predomoinantly jazz, with the greatest jazz pianist at the top - Bill Evans - but ranging from bee-bop jazz to heavy progressive jazz. Stefan Grapelli and Oscar Peterson (both on a Saturday morning for some reason), John Coltrane, Miles Davis ... the list is endless.
Sometimes I cannot tell the difference between jazz and classic.
Blues and more blues. I have recordings that go back to the early 1920's.
Blues-inspired metal, such as Stevie Ray Vaughn. Best late at night.
Blues-inspired rock, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Theirs was one of the best concerts I ever attended.
Jazz-inspired pop, such as Steely Dan and Van Morrison. Best in the car.
Enjoy it all.
Regards from Perth
Derek
What this all reveals is that some people are very definite about their tastes, others are not.
For example, I occasionally fill in with a local band when their usual drummer is not available. These guys do not play anything that was penned any later than 1969. They describe it as "rock - you know, all the good stuff". In other words, there's no value in anything written during the 70's or later (possibly debatable). They don't listen to the radio or watch TV or buy CDs. Time for them stopped at midnight New Year's Eve, 1969.
Other people just love music, no matter what you call it.
It is very hard to jam all forms of music into pigeonholes. There's so much 'borrowing' that goes on, the edges are always going to be blurred.
The term "Classical Music" is interesting. Most people think of orchestras, string quartets, opera and so on. In fact, this term is a generic one that defines a piece of music that is representative of it's class. Like when you say "that is a classic blues tune". During the 1700's and 1800's music composing was a much more structured thing and there were a lot of rules about what made it a good piece of music. So it is very much easier to classify each composer, but it still tends to be defined in terms of 'periods'.
But where do you fit someone like Frank Zappa?
2 words : Frank Zappa.
There was no "alternative" .... the music style ..... not another choice .... So I am now the only one who listens to Death Metal. So for anybody else interested "Heavy Metal, Death Metal etc..." now also includes ..... alternative, grunge, industrial and goth. Perhaps our new pollmaster can post a radio station quiz. I would be either Triple J or 774 ABC Melbourne (Local ABC Radio). I just want to make sure I get value from my 2c per day.
"Billy was a mountain, Ethel was a tree growing off of his shoulder."
Strange lyrics from a man who claims never to have 'done drugs'.
Interviewer: Is it possible to say where you get your musical influences from?
Frank Zappa: Sometimes you get it from chicken. Sometimes from coffee.
SilentC
Do you feel somewhat disgruntled that the bulletin board hierarchy seem to have the powers to increase the number of poll choices above the standard 10 offered to us mere mortals? Do you sometimes that your poll creativity is hindered by the restrictive regime of only 10 options?
Stinky x10
Relax its all tongue in cheek
:p
Yes I do. In fact I'd like to create a poll on how many poll options people think we should be allowed to have.
I mean, this poll has become a travesty, a mockery of it's former self, through the indiscriminate meddling of the administrators.
Given the choice, I would've had options for 'Polka', 'Ragtime', and 'Ant Music' (what ever happened to that?).
I blame the 10 option limit for the total failure of this poll to highlight anything of any use to anyone...
I think that Adam Ant started "hearing voices" and ended up getting himself sectioned. (seriously)Quote:
'Ant Music' (what ever happened to that?).
Mind you, that episode was relatively recent. Ant music died in the **** about 25 years ago due to being crap.
Craig
Harsh but fair...
:D
wasnt adam ant recently convicted of being a rock spider ?
re poll options : why doesnt Frank get his own category ? this is shameful business indeed. (please mr moderator I cant vote unless frank gets his own category...
dont foget the moral of Billy the mountain : "dont F* with mountains"
I prefer the "illinois enema bandit" or "wonderful wino" even some of the whimsical and lyric free stuff from "Lather" or "Sleep dirt"
... and who could forget the heart-wrenching "why does it hurt when I pee?"
The man was a genius. My favourite album is the unfashionable "Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowing Witch", featuring an excellent round on the dddddrums by Chad Wackerman.
if you like Chads drumming you should get a copy (unless you already have one) of "does humour belong in music" . I went to a drum clinic once where Terry Bozio was the star attraction and Chad Wackerman was also there. I got both thier autographs on my copy of "the real Frank Zappa book". Chad wrote "Regards" but Terry wrote "From the guy with the pointy tail and the sulfer reek" (reference to titties and beer...)
Get a copy of "You cant do that on stage anymre volume three" and listen to track 3(?) on disc 2 called "Hands with a Hammer" AWESOME!!!.
Frank used to say his "best drummer" was Vinnie Coliuta - if you listen to "Joes Garage" you can hear why....
Haven't got a copy but I've seen the video.
I missed a Chad Wackerman drum clinic at Mackins Music in Melbourne about 17 years ago by about 24 hours - had to go home the next day. Saw his kit though. Lots of things to hit...
Do you play, or are you just a groupie? ;)
I think you're thinking of Gary Glitter. Unless it was that guy from the Bay City Rollers.Quote:
wasnt adam ant recently convicted of being a rock spider ?
In my yoof, I was a big Frank Zappa fan, saw him at the Hordern Pavillion in '73 (now I go there to attend the wood show... hmm maybe I AM getting old), anyhow listening to him today, I have to say that I find his music rather dated.
Having said that though, my vote for favorite FZ record would be Weasels Ripped my Flesh with the Captain.
:eek:
Darren,
Lost for words?
Now that IS a first :D
I also saw Flo and Eddie back in the '70's too.
Great show, but they didn't do Magdelana, much to my dissapointment.
Ah yes, the maple syrup song... I had that album on a bootleg cassette with Billy the Mountain on t'other side.
How can you call that dated? Tsk Tsk :(
I'am trying to visualise those days and unfortunally I vivedly recall
Frank Zappa , still got an album some were.Thank god those days are gone(I'm wishing my life away).
Off memory a schooner was about $0.30, packet of cigs was $1.00?(used to smoke),and my take home pay was around $100.(can't remember wheather that was weekly or not but it was still crap).
Back to the real music and I think that "Driver" has pretty well hit the nail on the head however when I'm in my shed I listen to what ever is on the radio and love the footy on weekends.
Couple of random thoughts:-
Mick mentioned "Night on Bald Mountain" by Moussorgsky. I agree that it's a magnificent moody piece but also, what a great title! You know the music will be powerful from the title alone.
Here's one from left field. David Bowie wrote "The Man Who Sold the World". His version of it is quite good. Nirvana did a cover - not bad. But if you want to hear a really good, interesting and powerful version of it: Lulu. That's right: Lulu, short Scottish person. In my opinion, it's the only thing she's ever recorded that's got genuine merit. (All right, I'll concede that "Shout" is a good dance number).
Col
A couple of people have mentioned good concerts. Here's a memory:
In the early 80s I was living and working in the Middle East. I worked throughout the region but was based in Bahrain. Tina Turner was scheduled to put on a concert at the Hilton Hotel. It sold out in a hurry but we got tickets. A whole mob of Yanks travelled over from Dahran and Al Khobar in Saudi Arabia. (You can drink alcohol in Bahrain, incidentally).
Picture the scene: before the concert started there was a black tie dinner. We all sat there in the Hilton ballroom, looking very formal, eating the rubber chicken and making polite conversation. As the waiters cleared away the coffee cups, the MC parted curtains on the stage, stepped out and said: "Ladies and gentlemen - Miss Tina Turner!" He stepped off the stage, the curtains parted and there was Tina on a little tiny stage with two dancing girls and a 5-piece band.
They went straight into "River Deep, Mountain High".
Man, she blew the walls out! Within 30 seconds, the black jackets were off, the bow ties were askew and the half of the room that weren't dancing on top of the tables were giving it heaps all round the perimeter. Sensational! Best concert I've ever experienced - bar none.
Col
hi,
i love savage garden they r ace ,+darren hayse and inxses.
great
woodymarts
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Originally Posted by silentC
silentC.. it would only be wrong if you were watching Hi 5 for the MUSIC or the BOYS in the band... my favourite is Kellie :p ;) :cool:
Kev
And just for the record, I am currently listening to the following:
Neil Diamond : In My LifeTime
Van Morrison: best of Vol 1& 2
Various movie sound tracks
Millsie (thanks to my 14 year old daughter)
DiDo
Wings
Annie Lennox
Billy Joel
:o
Kev
coming in a bit late on this one but not many of you like the stuff i like so here goes. My tastes are mainly in Jazz, not the trad crap, and in particular Jazz vocal, piano and guitar.
Also love big band/swing music and best of all for me are all the fabulous vocalists of the 40,s through to the current day in popular music with the graets like sinatra,fitzgerald,bennett,darin,etc etc just too many to mention.
I have a collection of over 800 cd,s and dont know how many tapes and vynil and Im really lucky cause I litsen to them all day in the office and in the workshop when i get out there.
Classical music i find really beautiful, try sitting in a quiet dark room, relax and play something like Massenet's Thais-Meditation and it will touch every nerve in your body and bring tears to your eyes. good music does that to you if you really listen, its like poetry....getting wet again!
Suppose really I like most music thats well written and orchestrated and makes me listen to it.
beejay1
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Hey Kev, I was at his concert in Sydney in the early 70's absolutley fantastic!Quote:
Originally Posted by Brudda
Still listen to the "hot august night" album on a regular basis. Terrific song writer.
beejay1
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I confess to enjoying classical music providing it doesn't involve singing (or at least I think its called singing but with it usually in a foreign language and pitched at dog whistle levels who can tell).
Lee Kernaghan, Kasey Chambers, Adam Harvey and more Lee Kernaghan :D
It's quite something how music can affect you.
I never used to like clasical until I was with friends staying in an apartment in Rome. Jerry the guy I was traveling with found a station that was playing classical piano. I was hooked within 5 mins. Now, if I can't sleep I put on a classical cd of mixed composers. I'm usually out before the forth song. The first time I heard Pachelbel's Cannon in D I thought this is what I want to be listening to the moment I die (hopefuly later than sooner) I'm gonna have a medic alert bracelet made up the says in case of emergency play Pachelbel.
I had a creative writing instructor in college once that was what I first thought was "way out there" She had everyone close their eyes and "open their minds" and listen closely to the snippets of different music she was going to play for us and to write down what we saw and felt in our "minds eye". First thing I'm thinking is "when is she going to bring out the hooka and kilo of dope. It was quite an eye opener to hear how the music affected each person. The music invoked very similar visions and feelings in everyone. One thing I couldn't figure out though was why I had a real bad case of the munchies after!?!?:D
By the sounds of it, there are no Britney fans here.... Or at least not until she takes her cloths off:D
If yer a blues fan and don't know it yet Fleetwood Macs early stuff is something you might want to look for. The album that switched me onto blues was their Double CD Fleetwood Mac in Chicago 1969.
One of my nephews in England (who knows Uncle Col shares the same eclectic musical tastes as he) sent me a CD via my daughter when she came back from a Christmas holiday in the old country.
The CD is called "The Devil's Music" and its a compilation selected by Keith Richards of music that has influenced him over the years.
It's great! It's a mixture of blues, rock, boogie-woogie, soul, R&B, reggae and jazz. There are tracks by Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Little Richard, Otis Redding, Booker T, Tina Turner and the unforgettable Professor Longhair and his Shuffling Hungarians!
Col
Used to play rhythm and blues in the sixties. Still don't remember much about it so it must have been good.
I'm listening to Pink Floyd's Pulse CD at the moment and to my dying day I will regret not getting to see them play live. If they ever do another concert anywhere in the world , I'm there.
You wouldn't be refering to Miles Davis as crap would you?Quote:
Originally Posted by beejay1
Not at all, i stated Trad as in traditional, as in Dixieland as in the likes of Kenny Ball etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gingermick
Miles Davis falls into what I would class as free jazz or blues jazz which is the kind of music I like. That said, there is some of Davis's work that I would have to say I dont like, He was a most accomplished trumpet/flugelhorn player but some of his interpretations are beyond what I would class as enjoyable.
beejay1
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Yes I agree.
Mick
I like my Metal a little more serious than "Im angry coz I didnt get my pocket money..." mall / nu metal. And a little more sophisticated than "puncture wound intercourse" gore/grind death.
In short if the music sets the mood for burning churches then you will find me there, though likely it will be because I like mocking anything satanic (or Christian for that matter.)
Burzum, Immortal, Emperor, Satyricon and anything along those lines. If anyone wants a list of the albums I have message me.
And yes, Im teaching your children science, muahahaha!!!!!!! :D
J!
I have smoke gets in your eyes done by louis armstrong. I have no idea how old i is and had usually not associated him smaller ensemble, no singing etc. I tend to like trumpets and sax played very fast (Coltrane , lee morgan). Not as much as that sound Miles was capable of though.Quote:
Originally Posted by beejay1
With louis, I had only heard his dixie stuff when I played trumpet. Wasn't really keen, but i heard that track above and remembered that he was famous for his horn first.
Guitar jazz, like John McLaughlin. Or not?
Mick